Memorial Art Gallery Archives

Accessed by arrangement via the Charlotte Whitney Allen Library, the collections of the Archives include:

Exhibition catalogues
Gallery publications and annual reports
Board of Managers minutes
Correspondence files from the various departments of the Gallery
Scrapbooks
Posters
Photographs
Slides
Audio and visual tapes
Oral histories

Several computerized indexes to archival collections are made available to researchers in the Charlotte Whitney Allen Library:

File-list to the correspondence files in the Archives
Index to artists who exhibited at the Gallery from the Gallery's opening in 1913 to the present
Artist index to the Gallery's publications

Due to the Gallery's central role in the arts in Rochester, the Archives collection also includes information on many local artists and arts organizations including the:

Rochester Art Club
Rochester Print Club
Arena Group
Rochester International Salon of Photography